different between transcript vs riboswitch

English

Etymology

From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?ansk??pt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t?ænsk??pt/

Noun

transcript (plural transcripts)

1. Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
2. A copy of any kind; an imitation.
   • 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Against Confidence in Philosophy (in Essays on Several Important Subjects)

3. A written version of what was said orally

4. (genetics) A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
6. (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.

Related terms

• transcribe
• transcription

Translations

Further reading

• transcript in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transcript in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

transcript (third-person singular simple present transcripts, present participle transcripting, simple past and past participle transcripted)

1. (rare) To write a transcript; to transcribe.

English

Etymology

ribo- +? switch

Noun

riboswitch (plural riboswitches)

1. (biochemistry) A segment within the leading end of a messenger RNA transcript that is able to gauge the cell's need for the protein encoded by the rest of the message, then to rearrange its shape to control whether that protein is manufactured
   • 2006 Volker A Erdmann et.al.

     For example, a riboswitch responsible for sensing flavin mononucleotide (FMN) levels is present in the 5' leader of riboflavin mrna

Related terms

• antiswitch